Projects

Over the past 25 years the quality of the near-shore marine environment; the stocks of species of interest to sea anglers, and the sea angling experience itself has deteriorated drastically and a lot of work will be required to regenerate these to anything like the levels which were enjoyed in the past.

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At SSACN we realize this cannot be achieved solely through our own energies and advocacy so we work in partnership with a variety of other bodies on a variety of projects.

The following are pointers to some of the more significant projects :

Marine Strategy Forum – aims to ensure alignment and agreement of priorities and activities for integrated marine and coastal stewardship

Scottish MPA Project – aim is to carry out research and provide advice to the Scottish Government on the selection of MPAs.

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